Higher education in Gerodontology in European Universities

BMC Oral Health

Table 4 Disciplines that teach Gerodontology topics at the postgraduate curricula in selected counties with high response rates (>70%) and in all respondent schools

Disciplines	Croatia n (%)^a	Finland n (%)^a	France n (%)	Germany n (%)^a	Greece n (%)^a	Norway n (%)^a	Sweden n (%)^a	Switzerland n (%)^a	Total number of schools (%)^b
Prosthodontics	1 (33.3)	1 (25)	1 (8.3)	3 (12)	2 (100)	2 (66.7)	1 (33.3)	3 (75)	19 (15.4)
Periodontology	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (8.3)	1 (4)	0 (0)	2 (66.7)	0 (0)	0 (0)	7 (5.7)
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (8)	0 (0)	2 (66.7)	0 (0)	1 (25)	6 (4.9)
Special Care Dentistry	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (8.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (33.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	4 (3.3)
Oral Pathology	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (8.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (33.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	3 (2.4)
Preventive and Community Dentistry	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	3 (2.4)
Operative Dentistry	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (66.7)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2 (1.6)
Endodontics	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (33.3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (0.8)
Master in Dentistry research	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (0.8)
Restorative Dentistry	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (0.8)

n number of schools
^aPercentages calculated based on the number of respondent schools per country
^bPercentages calculated based on the number of all respondent schools (n = 123)

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